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Sunday, November 27, 2011

What Isn't Love?

No
one has ever read this poem. There was
a period in which I was obsessed with a woman.
It was a terrible, destructive, painful experience.

The
woman enjoyed her power over me and used it to pull me in, push me out, toy
with me. She wasn't such a bad
person. She was simply in thrall to her
own problems and the two of us constructed an awful parody of "love". During that period I wrote several poems
exploring rage, obsession and the difference between healthy love and obsessive
love. I chose to post this poem because I think
such experiences are not uncommon. Many
of us have been through the agony of obsessive, jealous, manipulative and
enslaving attachment.

About Me

A Midwesterner by birth, I migrated to the West Coast just in time to be a hippie but discovered that I related better to the Beatniks. I harkened back to an "old school" world of hard bop, Coltrane, jazz, poetry, painting and photography. A large part of my life went "off the rails" and I experienced the reality of the streets for too long. Putting myself back together was the defining experience of my life so far. It wasn't easy. It did, however, nurture the writer in me. I have written novels, memoirs, poems, humorous fake emails, and commercials

for ridiculous non existent products. I have a passion for astronomy, history, psychology, the pure abstract absurdity of human experience (what the hell is it?). My partner is an honest to god Animal Communicator, as nutty as that may sound to some people. She is the real deal. She also suffers from Fibro and it's a curse with which we must work every day. Come visit my blog and